Gênesis 22

Gênesis 22

Hughes: What exactly did Abraham do in offering Isaac? Genesis 22 gives the full account, and we must note as we look at this experience that the offering of Isaac took place a full thirty years after Genesis 15:6 when “[Abraham] believed the LORD, and he counted it to him as righteousness.” Now, in Genesis 22, Abraham was well over one hundred years old when God said to him, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you” (Genesis 22:2). This is easily the most shocking command ever given to any human being by God! We can imagine the sickening horror that must have spread over Abraham’s soul. It was contrary to his common sense, his natural affections, his lifelong dreams. This makes his ready obedience almost as equally shocking as with the first glow of dawn, without a word to aged Sarah, Abraham saddled his donkey, quietly called for two servants and his son Isaac, split wood for the sacrificial pyre, and began the terrible journey (Genesis 22:3). How could he do it? we wonder. Our text gives us the answer: “On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar. Then Abraham said to his young men, ‘Stay here with the donkey; I and the boy will go over there and worship and come again to you’” (Genesis 22:4, 5). Abraham was confident they would return together! This was because, as the writer of Hebrews reveals, “He considered that God was able even to raise him from the dead, from which, figuratively speaking, he did receive him back” (Hebrews 11:19; cf. Hebrews 11:17, 18). Abraham believed God would bless him through Isaac, giving him offspring as numerous as the stars. God would certainly therefore resurrect his son! (James: Faith That Works - Page 117) Henry